CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
If you are sick, please stay home.
To keep our patients, staff and community safe, we are scheduling telemedicine appointments as often as possible to allow patients to keep their appointments with their doctors from the safety of their home. If you need a note for work to practice social distancing, please contact our office.
Our current guidelines are to continue all the medications prescribed to you by our office including prednisone, biologic therapy, and all DMARD therapy. However, if you have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or is undergoing testing for COVID-19, hold biologic therapy/targeted DMARD therapy for 2 weeks (except you may continue Actemra and Kevzara). If you remain symptom free (with no fevers, chills, cough, or shortness or breath), you may resume your biologic therapy.
If you have any signs/symptoms of coronavirus such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of smell/taste, we ask that you call your family doctor’s office for guidance regarding testing and treatment for coronavirus. Continue your Hydroxychloroquine/Chloroquine. Stop Methotrexate, Leflunomide, Azathioprine, Sulfasalazine. If you are on steroids (prednisone, methylprednisolone), please call our office for directions. Steroids should never be stopped abruptly. Stop targeted DMARD/biologic therapy (Remicade, Humira, Enbrel, Simponi, Cimzia, Orencia, Xeljanz, Olumiant, Rinvoq, Rituxan) just as you would hold these medications for any other illness. However, if you are on Actemra or Kevzara, please call our office for further directions regarding their continued use.
If you have a fever, avoid taking NSAIDs (Ibuprofen, Aleve meloxicam etc). You may take Tylenol for a fever. If you already take an NSAID regularly, you may continue to take it as long as you do not have severe respiratory symptoms.
We ask that you follow the guidelines suggested by CDC and please review the following website for up to date information.
www.coronavirus.gov
If you are sick, please stay home.
To keep our patients, staff and community safe, we are scheduling telemedicine appointments as often as possible to allow patients to keep their appointments with their doctors from the safety of their home. If you need a note for work to practice social distancing, please contact our office.
Our current guidelines are to continue all the medications prescribed to you by our office including prednisone, biologic therapy, and all DMARD therapy. However, if you have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or is undergoing testing for COVID-19, hold biologic therapy/targeted DMARD therapy for 2 weeks (except you may continue Actemra and Kevzara). If you remain symptom free (with no fevers, chills, cough, or shortness or breath), you may resume your biologic therapy.
If you have any signs/symptoms of coronavirus such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of smell/taste, we ask that you call your family doctor’s office for guidance regarding testing and treatment for coronavirus. Continue your Hydroxychloroquine/Chloroquine. Stop Methotrexate, Leflunomide, Azathioprine, Sulfasalazine. If you are on steroids (prednisone, methylprednisolone), please call our office for directions. Steroids should never be stopped abruptly. Stop targeted DMARD/biologic therapy (Remicade, Humira, Enbrel, Simponi, Cimzia, Orencia, Xeljanz, Olumiant, Rinvoq, Rituxan) just as you would hold these medications for any other illness. However, if you are on Actemra or Kevzara, please call our office for further directions regarding their continued use.
If you have a fever, avoid taking NSAIDs (Ibuprofen, Aleve meloxicam etc). You may take Tylenol for a fever. If you already take an NSAID regularly, you may continue to take it as long as you do not have severe respiratory symptoms.
We ask that you follow the guidelines suggested by CDC and please review the following website for up to date information.
www.coronavirus.gov